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A. l. RISSER.

BOTTLE CORKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.7.1918.

- Patented J mm 10, 1919.

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A. I. RISSER. BOTTLE comma MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 7. 1918.

Patented June 10, 1919.

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A. l. RISSER.

BOTTLE CORKING MACHINE- APPLICATION FILED AUG-7.1918.

' Patented June 10, 1919.

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different. classes or sizes of bottles.

UNITED sra rus Parana our on.

ARTHUR I. RISSER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN'OR TO S. BOTTLERS MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CORKING MACHINE.

Application'filed August 7, 1918.

citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Corking Machines, of which the following is'a specification.

The object of this invention is to provlde an automatic machine for pressing corks into bottles to close them, and to perform this operation upon a maximum number of bottles with a minimum amount of machinery and human help. The invention consists in mechanism for carrying out the foregoing objects, which can be easily and cheaply made, which is satisfactory in operation, and isnot readily liable to get out of order. More particularly, the invention consists in means for allowing the machine to adjust itself to variations in character of bottles of a given size operated upon by it at a given time and for adjusting the machine so that it may be made to operate at the will of the operator upon distinctly More particularly, the invention consists in the features and details of construction which will be hereafter more fully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure l is a side elevation of mechanism illustrating this invention in itspreferred form.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the essential operating parts of the machine.

Fig. 3 is an end view partially in section, taken at the left hand end of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side detail elevation taken on the line 44, of Fig. 2, showing the spring tension device for allowing the machine to adjust itself to variations of bottles in a given class operated upon\ by it.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of mechanism for adjusting the machine to take care of different sizes of bottles.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a lever mechanism. 1

In arranging for the operation of the mechanism illustrating this invention, a normally horlzontal longitudmally pro- Specification of Letters Patent. .Patented J 1111a 10, 1919:,

Serial No. 248,686.

pelled conveyer belt 10 is provided, the same in the particular case here illustrated, passing over pulleys 12 and 14 and intermedi ate rollers 16 and 18, journaled in a suitable table frame 20. Endless conveyer 10 is propelled by power suitably, applied, in the case here illustrated, through a belt 22, passing over pulley 24, on shaft 26 which drives pulley 12. Conveyer 10 travels over a fixed table member 28 located in rigid position underneath the presser mechanism (Fig. 1), so that any bottle 30 carried by belt 10 is given rigid support while over this table 28. r

Rising from mainframe 20, are two upright channel 'iron supports 32, carrying brackets 34 for a horizontal shaft 36. Bigidly secured to shaft'36', for instance by pin 38, is an arm 40, carrying slotted yoke.42, slidable over looking bolt 44, also mounted on the adjacent upright channel 32.

By adjusting the bolt 44 in slotted yoke 42, shaft 36 may be selectively secured in different angular positions. Screw 46, operatedby a handle 48, threaded through a suitable fixed-support 50, engaging arm 40, Fig. 5, is a slow motion adjusting device for arm 40. By rotating the handle 48, and screw 46, shaft 36 is rotated in a clockwise direction, as viewed in the figures, while, on rotation of the parts in the reversed direction, shaft 36 moves under gravity action of its attached parts in the opposite direc tion.

Rotatably mounted on shaft 36 is the U- shaped lever mechanismv 52, shown in perspective in Fig. 6, carrying on one end bearings 54 for the shaft 56 of cork presser wheel 58. On the opposite or closed end of this U-shaped lever'member 52 is" a lug' or'block 60, perforated to embrace a screw threaded bolt 62, (Fig.4).- The underside of lug 60 engages the spring 64, surrounding the bolt 62, and bearing on the upper surface of a bell crank arm 66. This arm 66 is integral with a hub 68 rigidly secured on shaft pressure against the underside of wheel 58 tends to move block 60'downward against the action of spring 64. The parts are returned to normal position by gravity and 5 the action of spring 64 whenever the abnormal pressure under wheel 58 is removed. The mechanism at the right hand end of Fig. 4 just described allows the wheel 58 to move a suificient substantially vertical distance with reference to thebottle to ance of spring 64 to insure the pressing of the cork into the bottle. As the distance from shaft 56 to the center of shaft 36 is greater than the distance from the latter shaft to the center of spring 64', it will readily be seen that a given movement of spring 64 causes a greater relative vertical movement of wheel 58; that is, the movement of the spring is magnified at the wheel. This is important in producing an effective bottle corking machine, owing to the fact that the cork to be inserted is a relatively long, narrow object and comparatively speaking, requires considerable more movement to force it into place than can ordinarily be effectively produced by'a coiled spring moving only its normal length,

-'The movement of spring 64 is adjustably determined by selectively positioning nuts 61 and 68 on bolt 62. 1

The manipulation of the mechanism of Fig. 5. allows for permanent movement of shaft 56 and consequently the bodily movement of wheel 58 and the controlling spring mechanism 54 up and down, thus permitting the handling of selectively difi'erent sizes of bottles at difierent times.

Power is communicated to wheel 58 by 40 any suitable means, to drive it in a clockwise direction as viewed in the drawings, at

a circumferential speed equal to the speed 'of travel of the upper surface of belt 10 from right to left, as viewed in Fig. 1. In the particular case here illustrated, this rotation of wheel 58 is accomplished through the agency of a sprocket wheel 74, rigid on shaft 56, a pair of sprocket wheels 76, rigidly connected together and loosely jour- 1 naled on shaft'36, a sprocket wheel 78, rigid on shaft 80, a pulley 82 rigid on said shaft, v a pulley 84 rigid on shaft 26, suitably placed sprocket chains 86 and 88, and a belt 90 all arranged as shown. The specific means of thus unifying the speed of wheel 58 and belt 10 may be varied without departing from this invention.

In the general operation of the device power is supplied to shaft 26 to drive belt 10 60 over table 28 from right to left, and consequently rotatable wheel 58 in a clockwise direction.- The operator now places bottles 30, one at atime, upon the righthand end of the moving belt 10, as viewed in the drawings, and 3 simultaneously places a tabe corked, by gravity and with the assist the belt by coming in contact with the cir cumference of the wheel. As the bottles travel under the wheel, the circumference of the wheel engages each successive cork and presses it into sealed position in its bottle as is shown in the three left hand bottles of Fig. 1.

As bottles of a given style and size, such for instance as those shown in Fig. 1, vary somewhat in mechanical details about the mouth, owing to irregularities in manufacture, some little variation in pressure ap- 35 plied to the corks is required, and this is provided for by allowing the wheel 58 to move up and down slightly under the action of spring 64 as the bottles pass under it in the manner heretofore described.

Owing to the uniformity of speed of the conveyer and presser'wh'eel no holding devices are required for retaining the bottles on the conveyer.

When it is desired to adapt the machine to pressing bottles of a different height, either slightly taller or slightly shorterthan those shown in the drawings, the adjustment is made by loosening 'bolt44, and manipulating the handle 48 to turn the screw 46, the screw. 46 being rotated in one direction to move arm 40 downward, and consequently the wheel 58 upward, when taller bottles are to be worked upon, and in the opposite direction when bottles of less height are to be taken care of.

In actual practice, a single machine 'of this invention, as here shown and described, has, with two operators, done an amount of corking which, with devices heretofore in use, requires a plurality of much more complirilated machines with several operators eac Having thus described my invention, what I claiin'as new and desire to secure by Let- 1'15 ters Patent, is:

1. In a bottle .corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a wheel above and clear of the conveyer member, means driving the wheel atv the same circum- 120 ferential speed as the longitudinal speed of the adjacentpart of the conveyer member, means yieldingly urging the wheel toward the conveyer member, and means between the urging means and the wheel adapted to mag- 125 nify at the wheel the movement of the urging means. 2. In a bottle corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a wheel above and clear of the conveyer member,

ber, spring mechanism normally urging the wheel toward the conveyer member, and means connecting said spring mechanism to the wheel adapted to magnify at the wheel the length of movement of the spring.

3. In a bottle corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a wheel above and clear of the conveyer member, means driving the wheel at the same circumferential speed as the longitudinal speed of the adjacent part of the conveyer member, spring mechanism normally urging the wheel toward the conveyer member, means connecting said spring mechanism to the wheel adapted to magnify at the wheel the length of movement of the spring, and means I adjustably limiting the amount of such spring movement of the wheel.

4. In a bottle corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a wheel above and clear of the conveyer member, means driving the wheel at'the same circumferential speed as the longitudinal speedof the adjacent part of the conveyer member,

means yieldingly urging the wheel toward the conveyer member, and means for bodily varying the position of the wheel mechanism and its above connecteddevices toward and from the conveyer member, whereby selected different sizes of bottles may be worked upon by the machine. 5. In a bottle corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a wheel above and clear of the conveyer member,

means driving the wheel at the same circumferential speed as the longitudinal speed of the adjacent part of the conveyer member, means normally urging said wheel toward the conveyer member of such a character that it permits the wheel to yield from said position to take up irregularities in the work handled, and means for bodily varying the posit-ion of the wheel mechanism and its above connected devices toward and from the conveyer member, whereby selected different sizes of bottles may be worked upon by the machine.-

6. In a bottle corking machine, a continuously moving conveyer member, a Wheel above and clear of the conveyer member, means driving the wheel at the same circumferential speed as the longitudinal speed of the adjacent part of the conveyer member, means normally urging said wheel toward the conveyer member of such a character I that it permits the wheel to yield from said position to take up irregularities in the work handled, means adjustably limiting the amount of such yielding movement of the wheel, and means for bodily varying the position of the wheel mechanism and its above connected devices toward and from the conveyer member, whereby selected different sizes of bottles may be worked upon by the machine.

.7. In mechanism of the class described, a suitable supporting table, a continuous conveyer belt movable over the top of said table, mechanism for driving said conveyer belt, a

lever arm pivotally mounted above thetable,

a suitable support for said lever arm, a wheel journaled upon said lever arm, means for driving said wheel upon said lever arm at acircumferential speed substantially equal to the lineal speed of the belt and in the same direction, and a spring tension device on said lever arm permitting slight .movement of the lever arm and wheel toward and from the conveyer belt, for the purposes set forth.

8. In mechanism of the class described, a suitable supporting table, a continuous conveyer belt movable over the top of said table, mechanism for driving said conveyer belt, a lever arm pivotally mounted above the table, a suitable support for said lever arm, a wheel journaled upon said, lever arm, means for driving said wheel upon said lever at a circumferential speed substantially equal to the lineal speed of the belt and in the same direction, a spring tension device on said lever arm permitting slight movement of the lever arm and wheel toward and from the conveyer belt, and mechanism 'for rotating said lever about its pivotal point and for securing it in a new selected POSllZlOll with reference thereto without interfering with said spring tension device, for the purposes set forth.

9. In mechanism of the class described, a suitable supporting table, a continuous conveyer belt movable over the top of said table,

mechanism for driving said conveyer belt, a

lever arm pivotally mounted above the table, a suitable support for said lever arm, a wheel journaled upon said lever arm, means for driving said wheel upon said lever arm at a circumferential speed substantially equal to travel, a shaft extending transversely of the conveyer member ata distance therefrom, a lever member journaled upon said shaft, a presser wheel carried by said lever member, means for driving said presser member, a bell crank device rigid upon said shaft having one arm supporting the lever member which carries the wheel to limit the movement of the wheel toward the conveyer memher, an adjustable spring device between said lever member and the other arm of the bell crank permitting limited spring-controlled movement of the lever and wheel away from the conveyer member, and means for causing said wheel to rotate regardless of its position with reference to the conveyer member.

11. In mechanism of the class described, a

conveyer member, means for causing it to travel, a shaft extending transversely of the conveyer member at a distance therefrom, a lever member journaled upon said shaft, a presser wheel carried by said lever member,

means for driving said presser member, a bell.

crank device rigid upon said shaft having one arm supporting the lever member which carries the wheel to limit the movement of the wheel toward the conveyer member, an adjustable spring device between said lever said last arm in selected member and the other arm of the bell crank I permitting limited spring-controlled movement of the lever and wheel away from the conveyer member, means for causing said wheel'to rotate regardless of its position with reference to the conveyer member, an arm extending from said shaft, adapted when rocked, to bodily move the first mentioned lever arm and all attached parts about theaxis of said shaft, and means forlocking position, for the purposes set forth.

lin witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR i. RISSER. 

